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You have misplaced your cell / mobile phone , Smart phone or you left it out in public so everyone can see what you are using.
Apart from having your smartphone being stolen, what is the worst that could happen??;-)
While most smartphone and mobiles have some kind of remote erase capability and your provider can lock the phone to stop it being used to make calls to the other side of the world, there are some things that cannot be helped.
Asigra have written an post that explains what multi-tenancy is and how Secure it is. Well worth reading for those who have concerns regarding the safety and security of their data.
Despite the evidence, many businesses still worry that storing data in the Cloud is not secure. That’s one of the main concerns our MSP partners hear when talking to their customers. For any company accustomed to traditional on-premise storage sitting safely behind a firewall (if configured and working properly), sending critical data to the cloud can sound like a HUGE security risk. This fear that’s been hanging around since the earliest days of the cloud is especially pronounced for small businesses and for those less technically savvy.
When the first cloud applications and storage platforms appeared (Google Apps, Amazon EC2 and S3, etc.), serious businesses hesitated in adopting these new technologies. They were new and unknown and CIOs struggled with the question, “Are they secure?” Today, though, the cloud computing and storage market has matured and there are hundreds if not thousands of vendors offering a multitude of cloud application, storage, and computing services. Cloud security has been proven. There is really no greater risk storing data in the cloud than there is storing it internally.
One of the main differences between a locally managed computing environment and a cloud environment is the concept of multi-tenancy. Because data from different customers is stored side by side on the same servers, there is some lingering paranoia that “someone sharing my server can get at my data.” Multi-tenancy is not a new concept but it is an integral part of secure cloud-based applications and storage solutions. In fact, the largest cloud-based applications like Salesforce.com have employed multi-tenancy for years with great success.
"Why should my company consider using Cloud Backup?"
Leading Companies reduce costs by applying cloud computing to backup and recovery with efficient, cost-effective and transformational solutions from Calm Response. Hopefully this presentation will answer some of your questions:
At the most basic level, Cloud Backup involves the backing up of ones data into a service provider’s data center, over a Wide Area Network, using standard internet protocols.
While the basic premise of cloud backup remains the same, different types of service levels are provided to different people/organizations based on requirements.
Cloud Backup services need to provide a variety of granularity when it comes to Recovery Time Objectives. One size does not fit all. Your recovery objectives could depend on your business needs, on the type of applications within your company’s environment etc.
In the next few years, cloud computing will expand greatly. So greatly in fact that cloud computing expenses will account for 25% of all IT department expenditure by 2012.
Companies are now producing and sharing more data than ever, while new regulations are forcing these same companies to store their data for longer periods of time.
This brings up some very complex problems that might not be always obvious to non-technical decision makers in areas such as Finance, Accounting or Legal. In order to illustrate these points in a fun, easy-to-understand way, Storagepipe (a Canadian Data Storage Specialist) put together this short introductory infographic video about emerging data management trends.
More than half of small and medium-sized businesses are operating without IT security guidelines in place, according to research released by security software company AVG.
The company surveyed a sample of 2,000 SMBs in the United States and United Kingdom and found that not only do more than half have no security guidelines, but that "1 in 7 have no Internet security software or solutions in place at all."
AVG has recently launched abusiness resource center (www.avgatwork.com) that provides small and medium sized business owners and IT managers with informative guides, blog posts, videos, demos and tools to help them protect their business from internet and network security threats.
If you would like to know more about how you can implement and manage your Company's Security concerns, contact us at Calm Response.
